ИСТИНА

• Охват: Международная
• Даты проведения: 19 мая 2017
• Место проведения: Sciences Po Paris, France
• Организатор:
  Sciences Po Paris
• Веб-сайт: http://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/fr/node/13540
• Описание конференции:

  Lobbying and diplomacy are activities aimed at representing certain interests in front of the decision-makers and the public of a political system (Kerr 2010; Rowe 2011); at informing policy-makers and the public about certain policies, specific viewpoints, etc. (Melissen 2013; Rowe 2011); at communicating these issues via formal and informal channels (Kerr 2010; Stavridis and Jančić 2016); at influencing the formulation and implementation of policies (Rowe 2011; Tidwell 2016); and at building relationships (Rowe 2011). Moreover, both rest on persuasion (Kerr 2010), as diplomats and lobbyists have to convince their counterparts of the importance of their perspective, information and interests. Yet, diplomacy has long been portrayed as the prerogative of states (and its representatives), engaged in the management of international relations by negotiation and in a peaceful manner (Melissen 2005; Hochstetler 2013). In contrast, lobbying is normally associated with the actions of interest groups, who target policy-makers with a view to influencing policy outcomes and bringing them close to their interests and goals. In recent years, however, the exclusivity of diplomacy as a state domain has been challenged on several fronts: the range of issues has expanded well beyond the immediate military and political dimensions of traditional diplomacy (e.g. environmental diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, etc.); new actors have become to be involved in global governance and active in diplomatic activities; public diplomacy, i.e., the engagement with foreign publics, has acquired a prominent role in the diplomatic efforts of many countries. Similarly, there are many non-state actors who lobby (officially or not) on behalf of a state. This happens either because states have outsourced part of their diplomatic activities by hiring consultancy firms (e.g., APCO, Burson-Marsteller) to promote their interests within the EU (Corporate Europe Observatory 2010; Corporate Europe Observatory 2015; Newhouse 2009), or because the same non-state actors make the defence of the interests of a third country a central part of their mandate, such as AIPAC in the US (Mearsheimer and Walt 2006). It thus becomes difficult to clearly distinguish when these non-state actors speak on their behalf or act in cooperation with or as coopted forces for a third country (Hägel and Peretz 2005; Koinova 2012). The boundaries between lobbying and diplomacy are thus not always clear-cut and can be extremely permeable. If this is the case, are these activities faces of the same coin? How can we conceptually and analytically distinguish between lobbying and diplomacy in/of the EU? What makes the practice of lobbying different from the practice of diplomacy? Are lobbying and diplomacy performed differently at the national and European levels? If so, how? Are different typologies of actors involved in different forms of diplomacy and lobbying? Put differently, can we identify different types of actors that perform lobbying and diplomacy differently? By fostering a dialogue between scholars working on diplomacy and lobbying, two communities of scholars that have rarely crossed their mutual expertise, this workshop aims to open up a discussion about the role that lobbying and diplomacy play nowadays. The workshop thus investigates what makes lobbying and diplomacy similar and, at the same time, different, and how we can learn from the concepts and tools of these subareas in advancing our knowledge of the EU’s multilevel political system as an arena where lobbying and diplomacy occur as well as an actor that practices both lobbying and diplomatic activities. The workshop focuses on the European Union (EU), which is considered as a privileged case to study these two phenomena, as it has become one of the main arenas of lobbying activities, a very active actor on the diplomatic stage and a site where diplomacy is performed on a daily basis. On the one hand, member states are active in their diplomatic efforts in Brussels, when they negotiate within the EU. On the other hand, the EU is also an active diplomatic actors on the international stage, whose role has been strengthened by the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and its delegations around the world. Similarly, the European Parliament has been playing a diplomatic role over the past years. In addition, the multilevel nature of the EU is particularly interesting to analyse possible differences among the lobbying and diplomatic practices that are performed at the European or national levels.

• Добавил в систему: Каневский Павел Сергеевич

Доклады:

• 2017 Between diplomacy and lobbying: the case of Russia-EU relations (Устный)
• Автор: Каневский П.С.